Crossroads Guitar Music Festival

The crossroad guitar festival is a series of concert and music festival that showcases one of the best guitarists of all time. It was founded by Eric Clapton, the festival gives the benefit to the crossroads center. The first ever show was held on 1999 at New York City and is still on the run.

History of Crossroads Guitar Festival.

The Crossroads Guitar Festival has been a big success and has featured some of the best guitarists of the music industry.

It was founded by Eric Clapton who also runs, a drug treatment center in Antigua.

1999

The
first ever was held on June 30, 1999, at Madison Square Garden, one of the biggest
stadium in the world which is in New work City.

The
concert featured David Sanborn, Sheryl Crow, Mary J Blige and Bob Dylan.

2004

The
festival took place from June 4 to June 6 at Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas,
Texas.

It
featured some famous personality like Jeff Beck, Pat Metheny, Neal Schon, and
Styx.

2007

In this year the festival was held on June 28 at Toyota Park in Bridge-view, Illinois.

Ticket were sold out to more than 28,000 people and a DVD was made and was released on November 20, 2007.

Eric
Clapton played with various artist in this year.

Performance
on the main stage were-:

Bill
Murray, Sonny Landreth, John McLaughlin, The Derek Trucks Band, Robert Randolph
and The Family Band, John Mayer, Vince Gill and Buddy Guy who played with Eric
Clapton.

2019

The festival will held on September 20-21 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.

Music performed.

The
Music performed in Crossroads Guitar Festival are mostly Blues, country, rock
and bluegrass and these are the best genre of music performed here.

The
stages are shared by some famous artists like Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Buddy
Guy, Billy Murray who performed with Eric Clapton who is the founder, John
Mayer Vince Gill and many more.

Conclusion.

Crossroad Guitar Festival has been a big success since the year it was started and has a record for showing the best areas of the guitar world.Over 30K people attended this festival every year. And I hope your tickets for this festival that will held on September 20 and 21, 2019 at American Airlines Centre in Dallas, Texas.